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• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  , I don't live near Cambridge. And the last time I was on a plane was ... because I don’t travel that much. And this time, I was traveling by myself ... ="alignnone" width="300"] IAD airport at 6 AM which I hadn’t seen for 7 years until my

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  once were. Or maybe it isn’t static -- every piece of you that’s emerged ... the night. That’s something I want to hold onto forever. I don’t know ... drafting my writing thesis but the words aren’t flowing tonight. I remember

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  group of people—especially people I don't know. And if, on top of that, I ... threefold. One: do an activity that doesn't require participants to be put on ... level. Two: don't make it overly complicated or [annotation note

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  I don't even know myself at all I thought I would be happy but now ... wading in a sea of big thoughts and feelings, but I can't individually ... was 14. I haven't been alone in life for longer than three months in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  and the most pleasurable month of the academic calendar, but I don't ... obsessive and more fulfilling. I don't want to talk about my major as much as ... that I don't seem like a very peaceful person, but I am making a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  This isn't about cross-registering at Harvard. I was thinking about cross-reg, but I didn't want to overload myself this semester. It's about ... somehow worked, or the guy just didn't care enough to stop us. We got a tote

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  something completely different altogether. When I speak to Sanatan… I don’t ... i wasn’t sure. most technical work doesn’t feel like magic to me - for ... other hand, i didn’t really like any of the people i knew who were very

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  at MIT. These classes aren't for credit and if you're an undergraduate ... an MIT student concurrently was doable, but I didn't think an extensive ... Explorations of Drawing (Advanced), even though I wasn't sure how (Advanced) I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment

  

  allow themselves to drift into nihilism lose their edge it shouldn’t come ... that sharp swords don’t actually cut through dull ones. i think this ... between concepts which sound reasonable but don’t actually make any sense

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 21, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  into the internship. But one thing I didn't expect to learn much about was programming. I guess that sounds odd; after all, isn't the point of ... , yes. But to be honest, coming into the internship, I wasn't sure what

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  behind it. I don't like the blog at all. I take some pride in saying this ... 's why I haven't been writing so much. I'm scared to document anything I won't like in the future. As a challenge to myself, I'm putting my

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  , but we didn’t. Chris was and is difficult to know well, more so than ... shocked because they didn’t know I could actually make this magnitude of ... make. I called my parents in a panic because I didn’t know what to do

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  , but i would try to study with others whenever i wasn't too stressed. i ... it didn't interfere with my academics too much. i spent very little ... was oddly disarming; spending a whole day alone wasn't something i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  the ear in which it was played. I couldn’t have told you where “left ... it couldn’t be a book you’d read before -- and I was left reading about ... wasn’t really sure which way left was. I’d just failed a driving test

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  process, so I can’t even identify how I got to my current gloomy state ... much existential despair for someone who hasn’t even existed for two ... haven’t gotten over that yet. I didn’t do terribly well in my classes last

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  anecdotal evidence. I haven’t tried many of these, and you should try none of ... [annotation note="it isn’t really any better than other water...but everyone ... ??: 8/10 In reasonable quantities, probably. It doesn’t have ions, though

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Genshin Impact and a better introduction to me

  

  person in the picture is Albedo, who’s an alchemist. I don’t have a lot of ... , *said singing* the only exception, doesn’t have a vision but can go around ... a gacha game.  However, I didn’t know what gacha even meant when I

  • by ana~
  • October 7, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)

  

  renovated next summer, and if that happens as planned, i won't get to spend my ... . someone lived in this room five decades ago, and i don't know anything about ... to be a build lead for a project, and honestly i didn't contribute much

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 18, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  tiny living when life gives you lemons...

  

  , though, this airbnb wasn't quite what we were expecting. Firstly, we didn't ... us. What we (or mainly I) weren't okay with was the fact that there ... in for the month of August, but wasn't sure if it was worth the move

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 1, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  found out that I hadn't made it to finals in extemp, which felt like yet ... , over and over again. I called a friend briefly, but I didn't really have ... reasoning about why I didn't make it, neither of which were particularly

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020